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President Biden on Friday said he doesn’t think the coronavirus is here to stay, but added that he does think it will remain around the world. “No, I don’t think COVID is here to stay, but having COVID in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay,” he told reporters at the White House.

The new CIVIQS rolling presidential job approval poll, which has tracked his approval since he began as ‘president’ reports that he hit 35% job approval. About 55% disapprove of his performance. There’s always that 10% who never have an opinion. The 18-34 age group views him the most negatively, with only 28% approving. A total of 62% of men, who are more likely to be conservative, disapprove of Biden and only 39% of women, traditionally more liberal, approve of Joe. Another 56% of college graduates disapprove of Biden’s performance, and Hispanics are close to being evenly split on him. The...

To all would-be villains intent on taking over the world with bioweapons, heads up: you can NOT control this stuff. As unwilling evolutionary biologists/test subjects, we are witnessing how viruses survive and reproduce as their species depends on hosts for replication and spreading. As we were approaching the bottom of the formidable Delta outbreak curve, there was hope that natural immunity and whatever herd immunity might be building up from mass vaccination would bring the COVID-19 pandemic to a low simmer. Omicron, the most highly mutated form of SARS-CoV-2, has caused an explosive epidemic wave all around the world over...

Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic is the latest innocent victim to be sacrificed on the altar of COVID at the Australian cult headquarters. The reigning Australian Open champ has not been vaccinated against COVID but he has already contracted it and recovered from it. Two separate medical boards cleared him to return to play without the vaccination, concluding that his natural immunity should satisfy Australia’s supposed safety protocols. Australia agreed and allowed Djokovic entry, but then he made the mistake of celebrating his travels, and all hell broke loose. (snip) The senior Djokovic said this isn’t about safety but about...

A case of African swine fever has been detected in a wild boar in Italy, news agency ANSA said Friday, raising fears of a blow to the country’s meat industry. Highly transmissible and fatal for pig populations, the viral disease does not present a risk for human health, but poses serious repercussions for pork producers. Italy is home to 8.9 million pigs, according to the national statistics office. ANSA said the case was detected after tests on the carcass of a wild boar in Ovada in the northern Piedmont region. The regional research body reported to have carried out the...

TUCUMÁN, Argentina (LifeSiteNews) – A three-year-old girl in Argentina died of a heart attack the day after receiving a COVID vaccine required for her to enter kindergarten, her mother said.Speaking with Telefe Tucumán, Miryam Suárez said the vaccine and government mandate killed her daughter, Ámbar, who had been healthy and “full of life.”“I pre-enrolled her in school so that next year she would enter kindergarten, because now they force you when it comes to the vaccine,” Suárez said. “She was healthy. She was fine. She was not ill and didn’t have COVID.”Suárez took her daughter to get vaccinated on December...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday sounded off on the previous day’s efforts to remember the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to Scarborough, the remembrance helped “cast a light on just how wretched the House Republicans have become.”

[H/T HoneysuckleTN]SNIPBiden Has No Authority to Mandate VaccinesAs I have elaborated elsewhere, the plaintiffs have the better of the argument. Their position can be summarized as follows.First: The federal government has never imposed a vaccination mandate for non-servicemembers; the states have. Every state requires schoolchildren to be “vaccinated,” “inoculated,” or “immunized” against a host of dangerous diseases, and each such law uses one of those three terms (or some variant, such as “vaccination” or “immunization”).Moreover, the leading U.S. Supreme Court public health decision — Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) — involved a Massachusetts law and a Cambridge ordinance that each used...

CHRISTMAS WEEKDAY LUKE 5:12-16 Friends, our Gospel for today has to do with Jesus’ healing of a leper. Leprosy frightened people in ancient times, just as contagious and mysterious diseases frightened people up through modern times. But, more than this, leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore incapable of engaging in the act of worship. It is not accidental that the person who should do the examining of the patient in ancient Israel should be the priest. The man who knelt before Jesus and begged for a cure was not simply concerned about his medical condition; he was an Israelite in...

About 30 years ago an axiom came into being regarding the Clinton's. They had a habit of accusing others of whatever chicanery they were engaged in. That axiom has turned into cancer which grew in the DNC and now it has become standard operating protocol. democrats now accuse their opposition of whatever devious intentions they harbor. Never forget that. Today there is a new narrative. Under the guise of protecting democracy, they seek to destroy the Republic. To distract you from this evil, democrats are throwing out all kinds of canards under the aegis of "democracy in peril."DNC leaders blew...

[H/T HoneysuckleTN]Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 Commission was supposed to help Democrats hold onto their slim majority during tough 2022 midterm elections. Instead, it stumbled out of the gate, failed to gain legitimacy among the public, and has been plagued with serious legal and ethical problems.Pelosi’s decision to politically exploit the riot at the Capitol was a no-brainer. Democrats nearly lost the chamber in 2020 when Democrats took control of the Senate and presidency. The president’s party almost always loses significant numbers of House seats during midterm elections. The only time that didn’t happen in recent history...

My latest song. All too soon, we say the final goodbye.

The state of Connecticut has issued a new order putting COVID patients in nursing homes as hospitals see overcrowding thanks to the latest COVID variant. The state will issue the order despite Democrat governors in multiple states like New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey forcing nursing homes early in the COVID pandemic to take COVID patients — decisions that resulted in as many as 50,000 elderly people dying as COVID spread in their facilities. The spread of COVID in nursing homes in New York was so bad after Andrew Cuomo issued his order that 15,000 or more nursing home residents...

Prayers for my dog, please

If you like dishonesty, and dollop after dollop of general disgustingness, Joe Biden had the speech for you. Here he was for his big Jan. 6 moment in front of Congress, denouncing his predecessor, President Trump, defending voter fraud, demanding more of it, and calling it 'democracy.' His speech was ultimately an argument for his own right to power, by fair means or foul. Andrea Widburg has an excellent piece describing the Academy Awards quality of the whole wretched specter here. video (You'll need to listen to this afterward as sort of a mental shower, something to get the stink...

The family of tennis champion Novak Djokovic read a statement from the player at a press conference on Thursday in his native Belgrade, Serbia, delivered from captivity in a migrant facility in Australia.Australian authorities apprehended Djokovic upon arriving in Melbourne on Wednesday to prepare to compete in the Australian Open, one of the four top tournaments in professional tennis. Djokovic had published a social media post before getting on his flight to the country stating that he had received an “exemption” from the country’s onerous coronavirus vaccine requirements that would allow him to partake without being vaccinated. Upon landing, however,...

In the day long events commemorating January 6th, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a telling statement to her fellow members and the public at large. Pelosi declared “It is essential that we preserve the narrative of January 6th.” Part of that narrative is that this was not a riot but an “insurrection,” an actual “rebellion” against our country. Pelosi’s concern over the viability of that narrative is well-based as shown by a recent CBS News poll. The majority of the public does not believe that this was an “insurrection” despite the mantra-like repetition of members of Congress and the media. The...

An artist’s impression of a red supergiant star in the final year of its life emitting a tumultuous cloud of gas. This suggests at least some of these stars undergo significant internal changes before going supernova. Credit: W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant’s Death Throes “For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,” researcher says. For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life — watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before collapsing into a type II supernova. Led by researchers...

It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life. The best way I can describe this is by observation. In the Northeast of the U.S., and in many other parts of the country, everywhere you go right now, you see sick people milling around. After two years of work to control the spread, after brutal shutdowns of the whole country — shutdowns that happened two years too early, as judged by actual case trends! — COVID is here. Not just here. It is everywhere.The case counts are beyond anything anyone on the planet could have imagined a year...

A new drug with the potential to treat endometriosis-associated pain with very few side effects is getting closer to official approval. Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition and the leading cause of pelvic pain worldwide. With no known cause or cure, many patients have run out of options and are living with chronic and unrelenting symptoms. Safe and effective long-term treatments that can help patients live pain-free lives are desperately needed, and yet to date, very few drugs have been approved for clinical use. Those that have, like elagolix and leuprorelin (aka Orilissa and Lupron), don't work for everyone and...